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Definition of Mail boat
1. Noun. A boat for carrying mail.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mail Boat
Literary usage of Mail boat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Pittsburgh: With a Brief Notice of Its Facilities of by Neville B. Craig (1851)
"1, and then ply back and forth between Marietta and Galli- polis. Similar instructions
were given to the Captain of mail boat No. 3 to ply between Limestone ..."
2. The South-west by Joseph Holt Ingraham (1835)
"... of the rail-way—Ride to the lake—The forest—Village at the lake—
Pier—Fishers—Swimmers—Mail-boat—Cafes—Return—An unfortunate cow—New-Orleans streets. ..."
3. A Legacy of Historical Gleanings by Catharina Van Rensselaer Bonney (1875)
"The mail boat, having a crew of ... The robbers after taking out the trifling
amount of specie contained in the mail boat, left the correspondence ..."
4. Hospital Transports. A Memoir of the Embarkation of the Sick and Wounded by Frederick Law Olmsted, United States Sanitary Commission (1863)
"This is as much as I should say to-day, but you will hear of something that you
hardly expect by the next mail-boat. Cambridge : Stereotyped and Printed by ..."
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